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The development of the advanced Radio Frequency Timer of electrons is described. It is based on a helical deflector, which performs circular or elliptical sweeps of keV electrons, by means of 500 MHz radio frequency field. By converting a…

We developed a novel technique for frequency measurement and synthesis, based on the operation of a femtosecond comb generator as transfer oscillator. The technique can be used to measure frequency ratios of any optical signals throughout…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jörn Stenger , Harald Schnatz , Christian Tamm , Harald R. Telle

We developed a compact and easy-to-use phase meter based on a zero-crossing counting algorithm for digitized signals. Owing to the algorithm, the phase meter has low-noise and wide dynamic range. Low-noise differential phase measurements…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-18 Wataru Kokuyama , Hideaki Nozato , Thomas R. Schibli

We have developed a system for contactless measurement of nonlinear conductivity in the radio-frequency band, and over a wide temperature range. A non-resonant circuit is used to electrically excite the sample, and the induced signal is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-25 Marija Došlić , Damjan Pelc , Miroslav Požek

Atomic clocks are crucial for science and technology, but their sensitivity is often restricted by the standard quantum limit. To surpass this limit, correlations between particles or interrogation times must be leveraged. Although the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Chengyin Han , Zhu Ma , Yuxiang Qiu , Ruihuan Fang , Jiatao Wu , Chang Zhan , Maojie Li , Jiahao Huang , Bo Lu , Chaohong Lee

Recently, Rydberg atom has emerged as an attractive choice to realize quantum sensing of low-frequency electric field. The progress so far has mostly utilized the intensity and phase changes in probe laser and the corresponding detection…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Ding Wang , Shenchao Jin , Xiayang Fan , Hongjing Li , Jiatian Liu , Jingzheng Huang , Guihua Zeng , Yuan Sun

Atom interferometry on optical clock transitions is being pursued for numerous long-baseline experiments both terrestrially and for future space missions. Crucial to meeting these experiments' required sensitivities is the implementation of…

Frequency conversion is a widely realized physical process in nonlinear systems of optics and electronics. As an emerging nonlinear platform, spintronic devices have the potential to achieve stronger frequency conversion. Here, we…

Quantum frequency conversion (QFC) of photonic signals preserves quantum information while simultaneously changing the signal wavelength. A common application of QFC is to translate the wavelength of a signal compatible with the current…

Microwave electric (MW) field measurements utilizing Rydberg atoms have witnessed significant advancements, achieving remarkable sensitivity, albeit limited to discrete MW frequencies resonant with Rydberg states. Recently, various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Sheng-Xian Xiao , Tao Wang

Mechanical resonances are used in a wide variety of devices; from smart phone accelerometers to computer clocks and from wireless communication filters to atomic force microscope sensors. Frequency stability, a critical performance metric,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Swapan K. Roy , Vincent T. K. Sauer , Jocelyn N. Westwood-Bachman , Anandram Venkatasubramanian , Wayne K. Hiebert

The classic self-referenced frequency comb acts as an unrivaled ruler for precision optical metrology in both time and frequency. Two decades after its invention, the frequency comb is now used in numerous active sensing applications. Many…

Weak transitions in the (2,0) overtone band of the HD molecule at $\lambda = 1.38 \, \mu$m were measured in saturated absorption using the technique of noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectroscopy. Narrow…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 F. M. J. Cozijn , P. Dupre , E. J. Salumbides , K. S. E. Eikema , W. Ubachs

Atom interferometers require precise control of digital, analog, and radio frequency signals for effective operation. In this paper, we propose and implement a control system for mobile atom interferometers. The system consists of a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Bola Malek , Zachary Pagel , Xuejian Wu , Holger Müller

Traditional data collection from sensors produce a lot of data, which lead to constant power consumption and require more storage space. This study proposes an algorithm for a data acquisition and processing method based on Fourier…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Nursultan Daupayev , Christian Engel , Ricky Bendyk , Soeren Hirsch

Frequency-encoded quantum information offers intriguing opportunities for quantum communications and networking, with the quantum frequency processor paradigm -- based on electro-optic phase modulators and Fourier-transform pulse shapers --…

The design and performance of a sensitive and reliable cross-correlation spectrum analyzer for studying low frequency transport noise is described in detail. The design makes use of common PC-based data acquisition hardware and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-08-12 Xing Zhong , Sahar Keshavarz , Josh Jones , Claudia Mewes , Patrick R. LeClair

We demonstrate detection of proton NMR signals with a radio frequency atomic magnetometer tuned to the NMR frequency of 62 kHz. High-frequency operation of the atomic magnetometer makes it relatively insensitive to ambient magnetic field…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. M. Savukov , S. J. Seltzer , M. V. Romalis

We propose a new method for the efficient approximation of a class of highly oscillatory weighted integrals where the oscillatory function depends on the frequency parameter $\omega \geq 0$, typically varying in a large interval. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Boris Khoromskij , Alexander Veit

Pulsar timing experiments require high fidelity template profiles in order to minimize the biases in pulse time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements and their uncertainties. Efforts to acquire more precise TOAs given fixed effective area of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Timothy T. Pennucci